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Colonialism
Revolutionary America
Early Republic
Jacksonian America
Sectionalism
100
The theory that a government should seek to direct the economy so as to maximize exports and that colonies exist to serve the mother country.
What is mercantilism?
100
After relentless colonial pressure and criticism from Whig opponents, Parliament repealed the Stamp Act; but it immediately passed this legislation recognizing its authority over the colonies in “all matters whatsoever”.
What is the Declaratory Act?
100
Aimed at stifling dissent and criticism of the President and protecting the U.S. from alien citizens of enemy powers, these four laws, passed in 1798, backfired and cost the ruling party control of both the White House and Congress.
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?
100
When Lucretia Mott and ________________ were denied admission to the Anti-slavery Convention in London in 1840, these two women organized the first women’s rights convention in Seneca Fall, N.Y. in 1848.
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
100
In 1835, pro-slavery forces were successful in banning abolitionist petitions from being considered by the House of Representatives by automatically tabling such petitions. This was known as the __________________.
What is the Gag Rule?
200
Virginia planters in the latter part of the 17th century began to rely more on slave labor to cultivate tobacco after this violent episode.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
200
Written by John Dickinson, this was a last gasp effort by conservatives in the Second Continental Congress to reconcile with King George III before the Revolution.
What is the Olive Branch Petition?
200
As President, he resisted the “hawk” faction of his party and sought a peaceful resolution to the Quasi-War with France, thus resulting in the Convention of 1800.
Who is John Adams?
200
Jackson’s economic policies-- refusal to re-charter the BUS and the proliferation of “wildcat” banks--created a financial disaster that lasted for five years.
What is the Panic of 1837?
200
Her famous novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, was a runaway bestseller in the early 1850s in the United States and abroad where it depicted slavery in human terms and did much to promote and expand the abolitionist cause.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
300
In 1649, the Maryland legislature established this ground-breaking law that permitted all Christians--Catholics and Protestants--to practice their respective faiths.
What is the Act of Toleration?
300
The defeat of this major British force in 1777 in the forests of upper New York secured assistance from France in the form of money, soldiers, and munitions.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
300
Called “Clinton’s Big Ditch”, it connected the Great Lakes to the Hudson River in 1825, thereby connecting the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Erie Canal?
300
Led by Henry Clay and Daniel Webster, this political party opposed President Jackson’s re-election and they inherited much of the philosophy of the long defunct Federalist Party.
Who are the Whigs?
300
The most controversial component of the Kansas-Nebraska Act was that it used this precept to determine whether slavery would exist in these territories, thereby nullifying the Missouri Compromise of 1820.
What is popular sovereignty?
400
Originally founded by the Dutch as a trading post, it was claimed by the English in 1664 as a result of the Anglo-Dutch Wars.
What is New York City?
400
After the revolution, in the midst of a economic crisis, banks and other lenders foreclosed farms in Western Massachusetts, inciting thousands of farmers to take up arms against the judicial and government structures of the state.
What is Shays's Rebellion?
400
The term “Era of Good Feelings” was used to describe his tenure as president because of his dislike for partisan politics.
Who is James Monroe?
400
She successfully campaigned throughout the United States in 1840’s to establish asylums for the mentally ill and insane poor.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
400
The Supreme Court sent shock waves throughout the U.S., when it ruled the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional, claimed that blacks, both free and slaves, had no legal standing, and that Congress could not regulate slavery in the territories.
What is the Dred Scott decision?
500
He traveled the length and breadth of the colonies delivering impassioned sermons and was the First Great Awakening’s greatest preacher.
Who is George Whitefield?
500
After the Revolution, this legislation provided a system of land surveys in the newly acquired lands west of the Appalachian mountains in which land was divided into 36 square mile townships and one section in each township was reserved for public education.
What is the Northwest Ordinance of 1785?
500
It revolutionized transportation on America’s inland waterways by reducing travel time and costs while increasing shipping volume.
What is the steamboat?
500
The trigger that instigated hostilities between Mexico and the United States in 1846 was a border dispute involving land between the Rio Nueces and the ______________.
What is the Rio Grande?
500
This Massachusetts senator was attacked with a cane on the Senate floor in 1855 by Preston Brooks in retaliation for a speech called the “Crime Against Kansas”, attacking the actions of pro-slavery forces in the Kansas Territory.
Who is Charles Sumner?